MOE to stop publishing names of top students?
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pirate:
This is indeed a bad move! :gloomy:
What kind of logic is this? What's wrong with celebrating the efforts and talents of those who come out tops? How do we inspire excellence in any particular field if we do not celebrate the best performers in that field? Are we taking the first step towards the slippery slope of dumbing down and a culture of mediocrity?
As humans we are motivated knowing we are performing well.
Especially for kids the challenge of winning is key to wanting to put their efforts.
Take that away and academics may not be worth it, for many children.
the toppers are not just the ones on the chickenessense ads. They do serve as role models.
MOE please reconsider. -
Today I am very happy.
I like the first 3 posts above.
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pirate:
Are you kidding?!! :scared:... Or sports, music and art competitions should no longer have announced winners in case it results in over-emphasis on sports, music or art? Oh, wait. They already announced that for the SYF. :razz:
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Why is it that things must be taken to the "extreme"? Just because there is talk about over-emphasis of academic, MOE must remove all reference to that and not give the top scholars the due mention or recognition. Can it not be done with in a more holistic view? We want holistic education, but we also want to celebrate success and excellence in different fields.
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MOE is not stopping schools to give prizes to the top students.
The report states that MOE only provided the details from 1999. If pple before 1999 could live without the news of top scorers. I guess from 2012 onwards we can learn to do without the news
I don't get it why must know. Though I also had no problem when the infor were published too.
DD1 is P1 this yr, I didn't try to find out her position or the highest, lowest, mean and median scores for her level. My view is this we more or less know how much and how well our child can do or achieve academically. Plus we know how much we can push. We also know the COPs for the sec schools. So we set our target and work towards it the best that we can, giving some allowance for inflation :evil:
Last time when I still need to run the 2.4km, I know what's the timing for gold, silver and bronze. I tried to do the best that I can and I tried to improve. I know the rewards but I also know my body :rotflmao: -
So, penguin pants come in which sizes?
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I have a bad memory. Was Singapore medicore before 1999 when top scorers were not announced ?
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SAHM_TAN:
:goodpost:MOE is not stopping schools to give prizes to the top students.
The report states that MOE only provided the details from 1999. If pple before 1999 could live without the news of top scorers. I guess from 2012 onwards we can learn to do without the news
I don't get it why must know. Though I also had no problem when the infor were published too.
DD1 is P1 this yr, I didn't try to find out her position or the highest, lowest, mean and median scores for her level. My view is this we more or less know how much and how well our child can do or achieve academically. Plus we know how much we can push. We also know the COPs for the sec schools. So we set our target and work towards it the best that we can, giving some allowance for inflation :evil:
Last time when I still need to run the 2.4km, I know what's the timing for gold, silver and bronze. I tried to do the best that I can and I tried to improve. I know the rewards but I also know my body :rotflmao: -
In the past, reporters dug around the schools to find out which are the top scorers because MOE did not publish this information. MOE started publishing the info to save people the hassle of having to ask around the schools. Even 30 years ago, the names of top scorers and which schools they were from were in the papers. There was no problem.
The only difference was that back then, the list may not be complete because the reporters usually only ask those schools that historically produced top scorers. Well… this, and 30 years ago 7 A1s at ‘O’ levels will get your name in the papers. Now you probably need at least 9.
So now we suddenly have a strawberry generation that cannot tahan that somebody else scored higher than them? -
I have never seen being celebrated in the various media as a form of motivation to score well in PSLE.
I thought the motivation was getting into your dream school, if the kid had one, knowing that one has done his/ her best.
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